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How to pronounce “nonsense”
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Pronunciation guide for nonsense
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of nonsense with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
opaque nonsense that nobody will ever understand unless
- Definition summary
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
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How to pronounce nonsense
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
opaque nonsense that nobody will ever understand unless
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “nonsense”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- An untrue statement.
- That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- Something foolish.
- (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
- [Verb]
- To make nonsense of;
- To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
- (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time
- [Adjective]
- Nonsensical.
- (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
- [Interjection]
- An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
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